Caribbean recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has sunflower oil, spring onion, red pepper, chilli, garlic clove, thyme, curry powder, allspice, plum tomato, vegetable stock, kidney bean, pinto bean, black-eyed bean, coconut milk and lime.
Simple coconut & bean soup
Course: Caribbean
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Sunflower Oil: 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- Spring Onion: 1/2 bunch spring onions, whites and greens separated and sliced
- Red Pepper: 1 red pepper, diced
- Chilli: 1 Scotch bonnet chilli, deseeded and pounded to a paste
- Garlic Clove: 1 garlic clove, chopped
- Thyme: 1 tsp dried thyme
- Curry Powder: 1 tsp medium curry powder
- Allspice: 1 tsp allspice
- Plum Tomato: 3 plum tomatoes, chopped
- Vegetable Stock: 1 vegetable stock cube
- Kidney Bean: 410g can kidney bean, rinsed and drained
- Pinto Bean: 410g can pinto bean, rinsed and drained
- Black Eyed Bean: 410g can black-eyed bean, rinsed and drained
- Coconut Milk: 2 x 400g cans coconut milk
- Lime: juice 2 limes
Directions
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Sizzle the spring onion whites, pepper, chilli paste and garlic for 5-8 mins until soft and fragrant. Add the thyme, curry powder and spices, then cook for 1 min more, Stir in the tomatoes, then cook for 2 mins to soften slightly.
- Crumble in the stock cube, then tip in all the beans and the coconut milk. Simmer for 10 mins. Turn off the heat and stir in most of the spring onion greens, the lime juice and some seasoning. Ladle into bowls and scatter with remaining spring onions just before serving.
